Category: REVIEWS

Furious 7, 2015 – ★★★★

James Wan takes a crack at the franchise with good results. Shaw is a great bad guy, Mr. Nobody is a great way to explain away the increasing number of plot issues. Finally we bid farewell to Paul Walker, but Brian will live on in retirement.

Fear Street: 1666, 2021 – ★★

The 1666 part of this chapter was the weakest of the entire series. If you are doing an old-timey film you can’t just rent your costumes from wardrobe and call it a day. You have to weather them to make them look used and more worn in. Overall all 3...

Fear Street: 1978, 2021 – ★★★

My hopes for a cool 70s summer camp slasher were quickly dashed when I realized nothing in this chapter of the story really mattered. It could have been summed up in about 10 minutes.

Fear Street: 1994, 2021 – ★★★

Decent first chapter with some really gruesome kills. I wonder how much they spent on music because in the beginning every 30 seconds or so they were playing another pop song from the era.

Fast & Furious 6, 2013 – ★★★

Letty returns, Giselle sacrifices herself to save Han, Shaw kills Han mid credits. Fun car stunts, too much CGI, not one of my favorite installments.

Fast Five, 2011 – ★★★★

The high water mark for the entire series. Justin Lin smartly brings every main character back, brings in Hobbs, and stages the most thrilling back heist through the streets of Brazil.

Fast & Furious, 2009 – ★★

Dom is back, Letty “dies”, and Giselle enters our hearts. By far my least favorite of the entire series. Kind of fells like nobody knew what to do with these characters anymore.

The Doorman, 2020 – ★★

Exactly want you’d think a 10th generation copy of DIE HARD would look like. But I guess if you are going to copy another movie might as well steal from the best.

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, 2006 – ★★★

Much maligned at the time for drifting (ha ha) too far from the original premise, time has been very kind to this third installment. The racing is very well shot, very little CGI, and the introduction of everyone’s favorite character Han.

2 Fast 2 Furious, 2003 – ★★

One of the low points of the franchise, but you do get the additions of Roman and Tej. It doesn’t look like anyone was having any kind of fun making this.

The 6th Day, 2000 – ★★★★

Highly entertaining late career Arnold flick. They surprisingly got a lot right about near-future tech except for the horrifying, nightmare inducing Sim-Pal Cindy dolls. #hdtgm